Rangers F.C. supporters

Rangers Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the city of Glasgow.

The club has a global fan-base, with over 600 supporters clubs ranging from North America, Australasia and the Middle East to those closer to home in the United Kingdom. In season 2012–13, Rangers recorded the 18th highest average league attendance in Europe. In 2006, Rangers was one of the best-supported clubs in the UK with an estimated 1.4 million supporters.

Rangers and their supporters have traditionally been identified with the Protestantism and Unionism and hostility to Irish Catholics. The fans have been involved in anti-Catholic singing, chanting and violence.

Rangers fans have also participated in incidents of serious disorder in Scotland and in other countries since at least the 1970s.

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